ISE Foundation Shopping Lesson – An Integrated Skills Lesson
In this download, you can find an integrated skills lesson about the topic of SHOPPING to help your ISE Foundation students prepare for the Shopping subject area and the ISE Foundation exam. The lesson involves reading, writing and speaking about markets.
How to use the ISE Foundation Shopping Lesson
The lesson involves an information gap activity and so there are three different versions of the first page – A, B and C. You need to make sure that a more or less equal number of the versions are given out. The next two pages are the same for everyone.
The lesson starts with a brief discussion about markets and the students’ experiences of going shopping in markets. This discussion introduces the topic of the lesson and practises the types of questions students might be asked in the ISE Foundation speaking exam in the conversation phase.
The next part of the class is reading activity about famous markets – there are three different texts. Each student reads their text individually and chooses the correct photo for their market. Next, they have to read the text again more carefully and answer the questions about the market they have read about. If you wish, you can put students in same-reading text pairs (A with A, B with B, C with C) so that they can help each other and check their answers. Once students have answered the questions about their own texts, they then have to find another student who has read about a different market and ask them the questions to complete the table. Obviously they will also have to answer the other student’s questions about their market too! Alternatively, you can put the students in groups of 3 (A, B and C) to complete the table.
Once you have finished the reading and before you move onto the writing task, it might be useful to review the vocabulary from the texts (e.g. things you can buy at markets) and ask students to make a note of any new words they have learnt.
Finally, the students have to imagine they have visited one of the markets and write a letter to a friend describing the experience. Before beginning the writing, it’s a good idea to firstly get students to talk about their ideas in pairs, then to plan their writing and then compare their plan with their partner. This extra support can make the writing process much easier. Don’t forget to review the format of an informal letter too!
You can download the lesson by clicking on the red button below. Enjoy using it with your students :)
File: ISE Foundation Shopping Lesson
Why not try some of our other ISE Foundation resources? For each of the conversation topics, there are conversation question cards, vocabulary handouts, lesson plans and more :)